All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
The bat thought I was giving him the kiss of life!
When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor.
Genius is sorrow's child.
What's with you men? Would hair stop growing on your chest if you asked directions somewhere?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.
I don't try to imagine a personal god; it suffices to stand in awe at the structure of the world, insofar as it allows our inadequate senses to appreciate it.
At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.
The traditional ways were wrongly disowned by Christianity - in hindsight, medicine men were not demons but very important counsellors in the community.
Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Give them pleasure. The same pleasure they have when they wake up from a nightmare.
Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.
A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.
All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.
I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.
Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.
Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.
Only those with no memory insist on their originality.